OK, so I'll add a story that's similar to Andy's...awhile back we had
a DFW grotto trip into a water cave and Bill supplied a number of
people with his famous red Whisk laundry detergent bottles as floats.
The older cavers out there (that includes me) will remember those old
laundry detergent bottles, they were approximately 4" thick and 8"
wide and about 12" tall--just perfect to slide into your pack, and a
carabiner will fit on the handle. About halfway into the trip we found
a muddy side passage and Bill led a few cavers down the passage, but
he left his pack behind. Edwin Lehr had finally found an opportunity
to rock Bill's pack, but alas, there were no rocks to be found. So he
decided to fill Bill's Whisk bottle with water, which really caused
the whole pack to want to sink to the bottom of the passage. Bill
would have spent the whole rest of the trip trying to figure out why
his pack wouldn't float, but Edwin was new to the ways of rocking and
he was so pleased with himself that 5 minutes after Bill started back
upstream, Edwin asked him why his pack wasn't floating. That was
enough to tip Bill off to the fact that Edwin was messing with him,
and even Bill admitted that he wouldn't have realized the nature of
the problem until he had left the cave if Edwin had just stayed quiet.
Ask Bill sometime about how much his children like to rock him,
Diana
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Diana R. Tomchick
Associate Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Department of Biochemistry
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Dallas, TX 75390-8816, U.S.A.
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